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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Breckenridge or Montreal?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Breckenridge for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Breckenridge’s own page.

Choose Montreal for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Montreal’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Breckenridge 4, Montreal 25: Montreal leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Montreal 66: Breckenridge leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Montreal 55: Montreal leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Montreal 45: Montreal leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Montreal.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BreckenridgeMontreal

Where the figures come from

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeMontreal
Official language-French, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,926 m31 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeMontreal
City population5,0781,895,211
People per km²3323,806
Museums within 10 km037
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.